| Literature DB >> 19439535 |
Antonella Mencacci1, Ines Montecarlo, Francesca Gonfia, Amedeo Moretti, Angela Cardaccia, Senia Farinelli, Maria Rita Pagliochini, Angela Giuliani, Michela Basileo, Maria Bruna Pasticci, Francesco Bistoni.
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The BD Phoenix system was compared to the cefoxitin disk diffusion test for detection of methicillin (meticillin) resistance in 1,066 Staphylococcus aureus and 1,121 coagulase-negative staphylococcus (CoNS) clinical isolates. The sensitivity for Phoenix was 100%. The specificities were 99.86% for S. aureus and 88.4% for CoNS.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19439535 PMCID: PMC2708479 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02431-08
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948